On 10/5/2010 1:35 PM, harryos wrote: > The user can enter a website address which will be tracked by the > program for certain info and then a message is sent to the user's > mail.The user can enter many such addresses.The problem is that he > may accidently enter different variations of the url..and if I don't > validate it for duplicates ,the program will be doing the same work > again unnecessarily. > if user gives http://www.djangocon.us and djangocon.us or http://djangocon.us > ,the program will use those in urllib.urlopen(urlstring) ,and the read > page /data will be the same. > .This is why I need to consider the validation for duplicates > thanks for the replies > harry > > On Oct 5, 10:00 pm, Steve Holden <holden...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What aboutwww.mysite.com/default.asp?It might be helpful if you could >> give us a little more insight into the real requirement here, rather >> than a technical question based on some interpretation of the requirement. >> > But then the problem is that you don't actually *know* that www.example.com and example.com are equivalent, let alone whether the root page in a directory is represented by index.html, index.php, default.asp, default.aspx or some other bizarre default imposed by a site administrator.
The site is effectively a black box - you cannot truly know which URLs are equivalent without knowing how it's configured. regards Steve -- DjangoCon US 2010 September 7-9 http://djangocon.us/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
